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  • New Criticism excluded factors such as an author's biographical details, historical circumstances and other so-called extratextual materials to arrive at an interpretation.

    Jeep Barrels Past the Drama 2010

  • To be marketable the new cultural works will have to provoke and reward collective meaning production through elaborate back stories, unresolved enigmas, excess information, and extratextual expansions of the program universe.

    fans: mobilize a conversation / what consumes me, bud caddell 2009

  • By evening's end, the crowd is on the side of the performer-inmates, even though many admit their crimes during the various extratextual scenes.

    Prisoners Play Jurors in a Land of the Guilty 2009

  • "Pulp all biographies," he declared, and insisted that one should - and he did - make all of his judgments about books with no help from any extratextual knowledge or context, certainly not biography or history "excruciatingly boring".

    Argument and monologue 2009

  • The job of a translator is to deactivate that mine field of extratextual references.

    The Peritextual Environment 2009

  • But it all falls apart when considering the extratextual reality, which is simple: The Colbert Report has made kings and magic both, simply by mashing the personal and political into a digestible, hilarious and, most importantly, understandable narrative for mass consumption.

    Scott Thill: Roll Call Slams The Colbert Report. Bears Win. 2008

  • This principle - that the original understanding of the term "the judicial power" supports extratextual content - has far-reaching possibilities.

    First day. Ann Althouse 2007

  • But that JK would make such an extratextual revelation.

    A Real Conversation, Slightly Fictionalized for Dramatic Purposes « Whatever 2007

  • As such we are dealing with no ordinary crime novel, but rather a complex, intertextual and extratextual, literary work.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Miglior acque 2006

  • As such we are dealing with no ordinary crime novel, but rather a complex, intertextual and extratextual, literary work.

    Cormac Millar, The Grounds (Penguin, 2006) Miglior acque 2006

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